M0014560: Airing the beds, Bougainville, Solomon Islands

Previous title, replaced January 2022: Airing the beds, Bougainville, Solomon Islands.

Photograph of wooden planks leaning against the side of a home. The planks served as beds with short lengths of bamboo as pillows. The negative was made from a photograph taken by Miss B. M. Blackwood.

1956

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8.3 x 10.8 cm

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

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